Dream Speech

This morning, on the way to work, I turned on the top 40 radio station to hear some Britney Spears and T-Pain before transcribing horrible stories of child-kidnapping for Dr. Phil. But instead of "Shorty Got Low" my radios station was playing the entirety of the "I Have A Dream" Martin Luther King Jr. speech. I had never heard the whole thing, so I stayed tuned in. Some things I noticed:

1. MLK Jr. uses a ton of metaphorical language in the speech, these really grand and beautiful metaphors, which I found to be extremely effective.
2. MLK Jr. aspirates his 'h's in "wh" words. As in, when he says "what," he doesn't say "wut," he says, "hu-wut," you know what I mean? Pronouncing your "wh" sounds like he does is generally considered, especially at the time he was speaking, a characteristic of "proper" speech. Most English-speakers don't do it now, unless English is their second language or they have a high-class British accent.